Baseball vs. Minnesota

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04/05/2018 Added

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Ronnie Green discusses recent visits with Nebraskans around the state, the university's Commission of 150 leaders from across campus charting the course for the next 25 years and recent rankings, including being named No. 1 in the nation for best value online MBA.

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[00:00:00.006]All right, thank you Ben.
[00:00:01.060]Delighted to be joined now by the Chancellor of the
[00:00:03.126]University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:05.308]Love spring time, love this time of year,
[00:00:07.027]I know you do as well, gives you a chance to kind of get out
[00:00:09.135]and go visit some folks around the state.
[00:00:12.066]You recently did that, what can you tell us about your trek?
[00:00:15.134]Oh great, great to be back in baseball here in Lincoln.
[00:00:18.843]And our returning big 10 champions this year,
[00:00:21.577]taking on the Gophers in their first game.
[00:00:23.543]So I hope everybody's enjoying the game.
[00:00:25.896]Yeah, I did have the opportunity these last couple weeks
[00:00:30.548]to really get out across the state of Nebraska.
[00:00:33.680]I love doing that, having the chance to engage
[00:00:36.457]with alumni, with stakeholders,
[00:00:38.110]and supporters of the University,
[00:00:39.896]and just citizens of the state, in general.
[00:00:42.207]So we have had sessions that were hosted
[00:00:45.428]by the Nebraska Alumni Association.
[00:00:47.908]The first in Lincoln and Omaha two weeks ago,
[00:00:50.910]followed by gatherings in Hastings, and in North Plat,
[00:00:55.632]in Scotts Bluff, and St. Paul last week.
[00:01:00.487]And had really good conversations with groups of those
[00:01:03.970]folks in each location, a lot of opportunity
[00:01:07.055]to visit with media across the state as well.
[00:01:10.556]You know when you go from Lincoln to Scott's Bluff,
[00:01:13.044]you cross a lot of territory, a lot of great territory.
[00:01:18.210]And so we put on about 1,000 miles roughly in that trip.
[00:01:23.349]And our purpose there was really to talk about two things.
[00:01:27.065]Talk about the momentum the University is experiencing
[00:01:29.935]that we talked about a lot, one of our various broadcasts
[00:01:33.082]talk about the planning that we're doing,
[00:01:36.046]moving into our next period of growth.
[00:01:38.848]Our 150th anniversary coming up here soon.
[00:01:42.735]And then we also talked about the budget,
[00:01:44.906]and the state budget issues that are being resolved
[00:01:47.773]as we speak by the legislature, and our role in that,
[00:01:51.492]and kind of how we're partnering with the state
[00:01:54.518]to move forward through what has been a little tougher
[00:01:56.855]budget times as well.
[00:01:58.878]So, great gatherings in all of those locations.
[00:02:01.549]Visiting with hundreds of our supporters
[00:02:04.316]and stakeholders across the state.
[00:02:06.187]Let's talk more about some of those long term goals
[00:02:08.629]that you have, and I know that you talked about
[00:02:11.044]continuing to grow, is that still part of the plan as well?
[00:02:13.702]Yeah so we talked a lot, Greg, about our enrollment growth
[00:02:17.350]on the student side, we're going on our third year
[00:02:20.756]of record enrollment looking at this fall,
[00:02:23.509]coming up in the fall of '18, we're already
[00:02:26.437]kind of tracking our incoming freshman class for the fall.
[00:02:30.006]And it's looking very good for us to have another
[00:02:32.089]significant jump in our enrollment this fall.
[00:02:35.400]So, talked about that growth, and what that means for us.
[00:02:38.871]What it means for the state, what it means
[00:02:40.513]for workforce development and economic development
[00:02:42.947]in the state.
[00:02:44.366]And then I did mention to them a lot about
[00:02:47.348]our research growth as well, right?
[00:02:49.461]And we talked about how you know when you live in your
[00:02:53.410]own backyard, you don't recognize the things that are
[00:02:55.921]closest to you, and how powerful they are.
[00:03:00.564]We're all really guilty of that, I think.
[00:03:02.777]We used to talk about living in Colorado in the mountains,
[00:03:05.064]and we never skied because the mountains were there, right?
[00:03:07.362]In Nebraska, at the University, we have world leading groups
[00:03:12.301]in a whole variety of areas in our research,
[00:03:16.702]in our education efforts, that goes
[00:03:18.615]from business engineering, to law, to ag and water and food,
[00:03:23.244]to fine and performing arts, to journalism across the board.
[00:03:28.367]And as we plan for our growth moving forward,
[00:03:31.556]we're very excited about the fact that here in less
[00:03:34.635]than a year in February of 2019,
[00:03:37.780]we'll celebrate our 150th anniversary
[00:03:40.798]of our founding of the University of Nebraska.
[00:03:43.696]And we just launched, this past month, what we're calling
[00:03:46.826]the N150 commission, that is a planning group,
[00:03:51.059]broadly across the University, across external stakeholders
[00:03:54.784]of the University, who are planning
[00:03:57.042]our next strategic plan for the University.
[00:03:59.563]And planning that growth with our plan to formally launch
[00:04:03.091]that plan, February 15, 2019, so excited about that group.
[00:04:08.466]Being led by Donde Plowman, and Will Thomas,
[00:04:11.495]who's a professor of history at the University.
[00:04:14.983]Number 150 was meant to have about 150 people involved
[00:04:18.697]in these various tasks we're building.
[00:04:20.444]We're up to about 165, but that's okay.
[00:04:22.886]Over 150 people that are engaging across all areas
[00:04:27.000]of development in the strategic planning.
[00:04:29.284]So quite excited about that.
[00:04:30.481]Fantastic, well I understand the University also receives
[00:04:32.279]positive recognition recently in some rankings
[00:04:35.077]of some of your programs, what can you tell us about that?
[00:04:38.289]Well, you know, we're very proud of the fact
[00:04:39.872]that we're a top 50 public research University in the
[00:04:43.023]United States, it's a big deal,
[00:04:44.277]against very powerful competition
[00:04:47.640]out there in the higher ed sector.
[00:04:50.762]This past couple of weeks we've gotten a couple of
[00:04:53.166]very specific rankings that we're quite proud of.
[00:04:55.699]One is that our Ag and Forestry programs,
[00:04:58.324]so Ag and natural resources you might think about,
[00:05:01.224]our Institute of Ag and Natural Resources
[00:05:03.478]is in the top 20 university's in the nation in that field.
[00:05:09.590]And in the top 50 world-wide, so if you think about that,
[00:05:13.779]we have partners all over the world that we work with
[00:05:16.180]in that field, that would be hundreds and hundreds
[00:05:19.961]of university's represented in that group.
[00:05:23.007]So, we're quite proud of that ranking of our ag
[00:05:26.599]and natural resource programs.
[00:05:28.180]It fits for Nebraska, certainly,
[00:05:29.662]that we should lead in that area.
[00:05:31.903]And then in our College and Business,
[00:05:34.002]just this past week we learned that our NBA program
[00:05:37.907]that is online program, is ranked as number one in the
[00:05:42.136]nation, as the best value online NBA program out there.
[00:05:46.429]And also at rank number one in a statistic that's important
[00:05:50.714]of the alumni salary increase from receiving that NBA
[00:05:55.511]that goes with that degree, so very proud of our efforts
[00:05:59.575]in our Masters in Business Administration program
[00:06:02.537]at our College and Business are reflected in that
[00:06:05.143]very top ranking in the field.
[00:06:07.413]So conducted world class work here at the University
[00:06:09.938]of Nebraska is what we're all about.
[00:06:11.671]Look forward to a big win today, go Big Red.
[00:06:14.621]That is University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor
[00:06:16.807]Ronnie Green with us here on pregame.
[00:06:18.145]First pitch, Huskers and Gophers coming up next.
[00:06:20.724]This is the Husker IMG Sports Network.

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